My wiew on Homeopathy

Homeopathy is some form of "alternative medicine" that claims they can obtein medicine by diluting various substances by a large amont (million or billion times) in water. Quite a controverse in medicine science. Largely is considered that there is no proof of it really working, and recent studies showed it has about same efect as placebo.

The placebo effect is defined in wikipedia as follows: "is the phenomenon that a patient's symptoms can be alleviated by an otherwise ineffective treatment, since the individual expects or believes that it will work. Some people consider this to be a remarkable aspect of human physiology; others consider it to be an illusion arising from the way medical experiments were conducted." That pretty much sums it up.

Now back to homeopathy. They say water has magnetic memory, and this is way the effects are replicated within the diluted solutions. Some experiments were conducted, however they were never validated by the science community. We can't really say what is true or not. I have no idea what the truth really is, but I'd rather stick with the science community.

However, I wish to point something else about this. The economic implications of it are actually pretty big. Suppose it's a fraud. Some company are certainly making a lot of money by selling nothing but watter. And this days there is a market for homeopathic "medicine". The economic implications are not that great as far as the market is really small compared with real medicine. In this case, some people are beeing scamed, but I would say is their fault and maybe if there is a placebo efect, there is not much wrong in it.

But the real huge economy implications would be if it really worked. The medicine factoryes are certainly some of most profitable business. Diluted solutions are basically pure water so they would be really cheap. Thus farmhouses would colapse and would have really huge implications in economic therms. I would say treating people with water could lead to disasters as far as the society is concerned. The other side is that humans would all have access to really cheap medicine, and that looks great.

Either way I have the feeling that because of the huge echonomic implacations it would have, powerfull companies have all interest not to give any credit to it, even try to block reserch on the issue. I think this is similar to car manufacturers not investing enough in search for alternative combustion, because oil companies are huge businesses.

We leave in a world led by economic interests.